To start out the month, we took one of Jordyn's friends to see Houston's mounted patrol horses. 
The girls had fun and so did us adults. It was the first time Jordyn's friend was able to feed horses (her mom's first time as well) but they were brave and stepped up to the task (it's a bit scary feeding these horses, some of them are HUGE). 
We miss seeing K and her mom at church, they were in our old ward (we miss all of our Summerwood Ward friends). Side note: since Jordyn started gymnastics in Septmeber she hangs on EVERY bar she sees and has to walk on EVERYTHING that looks like a beam
The next outing sort of just happened. We were out house hunting and arrived at a house a little early so we found a small park for Jordyn to play at while we waited for our realtor.
It was a fun break for all of us. I even got into the fun and went down the slide with Jordyn.
Daddy was a bit tired so he tried to take a catnap on the bench, 
but Jordyn kept him up by piling things on him as he slept. 
We were wanting to take Jordyn to a "real" pumpkin patch this year but didn't have the time to make the required hour or so drive so we settled for a "church patch" Jordyn had fun looking at all the pumpkins. 
She picked out a couple of baby ones for her and a big one for daddy. 
We even ran into Jordyn's pediatrician while there. Apparently the Dr. goes to that church and was volunteering at the patch that day. It was fun to see her in a different setting, though Jordyn didn't seem to recognize her. This was during Jordyn's "acorn phase" and she ended up with 2 fistfuls of acorns before we got back to the car. 
Unfortunately we never got around to carving those pumpkins and they got thrown out right before we moved.
Erik's mom is an Assistant Principal at a local high school and some of her students were going on a field trip to the Houston Renaissance Festival. Erik and I were able to be chaperone's and took Jordyn with us. It was nice to be able to go on a day that wasn't too crowded (it was only open to schools on the day we went) and have Jordyn enjoy the festivities.
The dress she wore is one that we got for her at the festival last year. She pretended she was Cinderella in it and would go up to EVERY bench we passed and would lean on it and start to cry "for her fairy Godmother" just like Cinderella does in the cartoon. It was cute at first but quickly got old since she had to do that on EVEY bench we saw.
Last, but not least, Halloween. When we were in Utah in August, I asked my mom to make Jordyn a costume (my mom is also SUPER talented and can sew anything). At the time, Jordyn's favorite movie was 101 Dalmatians so we found a cute pattern and some adorable fabric and my mom made this awesome costume for Jordyn.
Jordyn was able to wear the costume several times. Her Mimi (Erik's Mom) took her to a costume party at her gymnastics class, we went to our ward's trunk-or-treat and then we went trick-or-treating with Jordyn's friend Elizabeth. 
Jordyn really got into the spirit of trick-or-treating. She'd run up to the door and pound on it and then if the people weren't fast enough in opening the door she'd grab the door knob and try to open the door herself. Once the door was open she'd say "tricker treat", get her candy and then try to reach into the bowl to get some more. Several houses in our neighborhood had their walkways decorated. Elizabeth was a little too nervous to go up to the door on some of them, but the scary stuff didn't bother Jordyn. She had a mission and that was to GET MORE CANDY and that she did. After the girls had their fun, Elizabeth's grandparents watched the girls so us adults could go to a party at the neighbors. I appreciate Michelle and Miguel for letting me be the third wheel since by significant other was out playing cops and robbers. 
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